Extra time with rob bonnet. Hello. Im rob bonnet. Welcome to this edition of extra time. What does a international cricketer, a leading run scorer of his time and a player who relished the machismo challenge of facing the worlds fastest bowlers do when his confidence is shot and hes finally told its time to retire. In the case of our guest today, englands robin smith, he enters a downward spiral of depression fuelled by drink and involving also divorce and eventually a determination to kill himself. Thankfully he is still here and he is about to tell us his story. Robin smith, welcome to extra time. Test batting average for england of 43. 67 from 64 matches between your debut in 1988 and your last test match in 1996. Its a proud record. Its a very proud record and a record that i had no idea as a youngster that i would be playing test match cricket, having been brought up in the apartheid system in south africa. Very, very lucky that mum and dad were both born in england. And an encour
Like herfather in 1945, tomorrow night the queen will address the nation on this unique day of commemoration. Of course, it is too soon to say how historians will remember it, but i hope that they will see it as a time when we reinvented or reimagined what pageantry, what remembrance and what commemoration could be. There will be a National Sing a long tomorrow evening. 97 year old iris is the oldest member of the rock choir. Rehearsals with her choir leader michael have moved online and to her own garden in bromley. Plays last post. And things have also changed for air cadet dan hill. Instead of an event in the city of london, he has gone for something more intimate. I will be playing outside my house to keep the day significant to people, getting the street involved, and just sort of to remember. Ve Day Celebrations in 2020 perhaps, in themselves, something for the history books. Daniela ralph, bbc news. Time for a look at the weather heres thomasz schafernaker. The weather this even